After the Greens, the FDP has now also commented on the further talks. Tomorrow the Liberals want to speak to the SPD and the Greens first. A back door for a Jamaica coalition remains open.
The FDP now also wants to talk to the SPD and the Greens about a possible government alliance. “We have accepted the proposal to talk to the SPD,” said party leader Christian Lindner on Wednesday in Berlin after internal consultations. The Greens had previously proposed a three-way discussion with the SPD and FDP. Talks to form a so-called Jamaica coalition with the Union and the Greens remained an option, Lindner made clear.
The FDP leader said that he had suggested SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz that there would be a three-person meeting on Thursday, and that this would also happen. There are no parallel talks with the Union and the Greens about forming an alliance.
The FDP is only joining a central government that strengthens the “value of freedom” and provides a real impetus for the renewal of the country, said Lindner. It depends on liberal content. Lindner emphasized that there is the greatest overlap in terms of content with the Union. A Jamaica alliance remains a viable option for the FDP.
Jamaica remains an option – even for the Greens
The Greens had previously spoken out in favor of a traffic light alliance with the SPD and FDP. They had come to the conclusion that it would make sense “to speak more deeply now (…) with the FDP and SPD,” said party leader Annalena Baerbock after just one hour of deliberations between the party executive and the party council in Berlin on Wednesday.
The Greens would now propose this to the FDP, said Baerbock. Baerbock justified the decision with commonalities with the SPD and FDP that had become clear in the previous discussions. Co-party leader Robert Habeck referred to “intersections” especially “in the broad area of social politics”. He emphasized, however, that a final decision on the future government alliance had not yet been made. In this respect, this decision by the Greens is still “not a complete rejection of Jamaica”.
Mathematically, after the federal election, both a traffic light alliance and a Jamaica coalition of the Union, Greens and FDP are possible. This variant was previously preferred by the FDP.
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